An addition to Michigan State’s Munn Ice Arena remains in limbo as the university works to attract a lead donor for the proposed $18-20 million project.
Source: Detroit Free Press
Category: Ice Hockey
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Spartan Hockey Captains Announced for 2017-18 Season
Michigan State hockey head coach Danton Cole announced on Thursday (May 18) the team captains for the 2017-18 season. Junior Mason Appleton will serve as team captain, while senior Carson Gatt, junior Brennan Sanford and sophomore Sam Saliba were elected assistant captains.
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Big Ten Releases 2017-18 Hockey Conference Schedule
The Big Ten Conference announced the 2017-18 league hockey schedule on Thursday, May 4. The slate for the upcoming season includes 24 conference games with the addition of Notre Dame as an affiliate member for hockey.
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Chris Luongo and Joe Exter Added to Spartan Hockey Coaching Staff
Michigan State hockey head coach Danton Cole has completed his coaching staff with the hiring of Chris Luongo and Joe Exter as assistant coaches, it was announced on Wednesday. Both Luongo and Exter will begin their roles with the Spartan hockey program immediately.
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Danton Cole takes the helm of his alma mater’s Spartan hockey program
Danton Cole, an 18-year coaching veteran with international, professional and collegiate experience, is the new head coach of the Michigan State hockey program. Cole, who was a key member of some of the most successful Spartan hockey teams in program history, comes to Michigan State from USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program where he has mentored some of the nation’s top young players on the U-17 and U-18 teams for the past seven seasons.
Source: The Spartan Podcast
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Q&A With … Danton Cole
Last week, Danton Cole was named the new coach at Michigan State, his alma mater.
Source: College Hockey New
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Spartan Speak: Miles Bridges, Danton Cole, MSU football
After a two-week break, Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch and Detroit Free Press/LSJ Michigan State beat writer Chris Solari are back! The duo kicks things off by discussing Miles Bridges’ decision to return to MSU, the Party at Sparty, and the long-term ramifications. They then move on to discuss new hockey head coach Danton Cole (22:45) and cap things off with a discussion of more bad news for the Spartan football team (33:00).
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Michigan State to Serve as Host Institution for 2020 Frozen Four in Detroit
The NCAA announced Tuesday that Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena will be the site of the 2020 Men’s Division I Hockey Frozen Four with Michigan State University serving as the host institution.
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Inside MSU Athletics – April 18, 2017
We are joined by Hockey Head Coach Danton Cole, Women’s Golf Coach Stacey Slobondnik-Stoll and Women’s Soccer Head Coach Tom Saxton throughout the show
Source: Spartan Sports Network
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The Danton Cole Era is Underway
New Spartans Head Hockey Coach Danton Cole made sure in his introductory press conference to make it clear that this job means a lot to him. Cole is a Spartan through and through. Not only is the new bench boss fortunate, this program is fortunate. The thought of Cole going to the now vacant job in Ann Arbor and beating MSU in the future is almost unbearable. Luckily, we’ll never have to know what that feels like. Cole has the feel of a guy who could be here for a long, long time.
Source: The Only Colors
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Distinguished Spartan Award Winner: Frank Finn
When Frank Finn began his college hockey career at Michigan State as a student-athlete in the fall of 1978, he already had specific goals in his mind before he walked on campus.
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Spartan Hockey Hosts Annual Awards Program
The Michigan State hockey program officially wrapped up the 2016-17 season with its annual awards program on Saturday (April 15) at Kellogg Center in East Lansing. Senior Joe Cox came away as the evening’s big winner as he took home four awards.
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Couch: Danton and Debbie Cole’s long road between Waverly and MSU
Of the many things that attracted Debbie Fox to Danton Cole all those years ago, hockey wasn’t one of them. Danton liked that. Still does. “I think she understands the business of hockey,” Michigan State’s new hockey coach said of his wife. “But, I don’t want this to come out the wrong way, I don’t think hockey is that important to her.
Source: Lansing State Journal
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Behind the Mask S4E21: There’s a new coach in town
Danton Cole is the new coach of Spartan hockey, and a new era dawns in East Lansing. In the final podcast of the season, Jason, Jacob, and Andrew give their thoughts on the hire and what Cole brings to the table. In addition, the guys break down Cole’s recent press conference and look at how Cole will achieve the four points of his plan to resurrect Spartan hockey.
Source: Impact Sports
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Former MSU hockey national champion Matt Mulcahy pens book
From 1963-66, Matt Mulcahy built a lifetime of memories as a member of the MSU ice hockey team, including winning the 1966 National Championship. Now, Mulcahy is a grandparent and also the author of the book “Not At Grandma’s House (My House – My Rules).”
Source: The State News
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Spartans in the Stanley Cup Playoffs
The chase for the Stanley Cup gets underway on Wednesday evening with the first games of the 2017 National Hockey League playoffs. Nine Spartans appeared in the NHL this season and four will have a shot at having their names etched on the Cup. Torey Krug and John-Michael Liles and the Boston Bruins will meet the Ottawa Senators in the opening round, while Jeff Petry and the Montreal Canadiens take on the New York Rangers. In the Western Conference, Duncan Kieth and the Chicago Blackhawks meet the Nashville Predators in the opening round.
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Cole Took the Winding Path Home
Cole had a lengthy playing career, then got into coaching, first in the minor leagues in the AHL and even lower levels. When he was with Grand Rapids, he said he told a reporter that one day he wanted to wind up back in East Lansing. “It’s been on my mind. The timing has to be right, sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t,” Cole said. “That’s a lesson you have to learn. And when great things happen, it’s a wonderful thing.”
Source: Cole Took the Winding Path Home : College Hockey News
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MSU hockey excited for future with new head coach Danton Cole
It took 21 days, but the new face of the MSU ice hockey program has been chosen.MSU alum and Pontiac, Mich. native Danton Cole was announced the seventh head coach in program history in a press conference on Tuesday. After a dismal, dispiriting 2016-17 season, one where the Spartans won just a mere seven total games, the MSU hockey team is excited for what is to come.
Source: The State News
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Neil’s Notebook: Cole Back Home With His Dream Job
Danton Cole has his share of different hockey coaching jobs. There have been stops in Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Grand Rapids again, Fraser, Bowling Green, Ohio, Huntsville, Alabama, and Ann Arbor. Now, he has his dream job: Head coach, Michigan State University his alma mater.
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Spartans who played for Cole at USA NTDP say he’ll kick butt
Danton Cole stood at the podium on Tuesday in the Huntington Club at Munn Ice Arena after being introduced as the seventh head hockey coach in the program’s history outlining some of the expectations he had for the rejuvenation of the program going forward. But before he got more in-depth as to how he hopes to return a program once known as a national power, one that hasn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 2012, back to not just respectability but as a regular participant in the postseason, Cole talked ab
Source: SpartanMag.com